Experience 04

Light that follows the sun.

Tunable white, dimmed low, and scheduled right — circadian lighting makes a beautiful house feel alive. Paired with whisper-quiet motorized shades, the home reads the hour and the weather and adjusts on its own.

On scenes, not switches

A keypad is worth ten apps.

Apps are fine. Keypads are better. A clean, labeled keypad in the right location — next to the bed, at the top of the stairs, in the primary suite — is the shortest distance between a person and the light they want.

We program scenes room by room with the homeowner: "Morning," "Evening," "Dinner," "Reading," "All Off." Each one dims fixtures, tunes color temperature, and cues shades — in one motion.

Luxury bedroom at dusk with a motorized shade lowering over a city-view window and a glowing keypad
Shades

Motorized fabric, quietly done.

Our motorized shade work uses Lutron and Crestron platforms — quiet hardware, reliable long-term, and integrated cleanly with lighting and scenes. Fabric selection is coordinated with the interior designer; we handle the technology, they handle the aesthetic.

Every primary suite should have blackout shades on a schedule. Every glass-walled room should have a solar shade that closes when the afternoon sun does. These are small decisions, quietly automated.

Platforms
Lutron · Crestron
Fabrics
Solar · room-darkening · blackout
Drive
AC & battery-powered
Control
Keypad · app · scheduled
Capabilities

What we build

Further reading

From the Journal.

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Lighting & Shades6 min read

Platform shades vs. the specialists.

Lutron and Crestron make excellent motorized shades. So do Hunter Douglas, QMotion, and Hartmann & Forbes.
Process6 min read

The right moment to bring in the integrator.

Zoning the lighting is a design decision, not a field call.